Given as a wedding gift, officials at the northwest England zoo say the animal will remain in his habitat with 49 other Humbolt penguins.

"Hopefully the happy couple will come and see little Acorn playing in his pool very soon," a zoo spokesman said Friday.

The lucky animal beat out 400 other species of penguins in a vote conducted on the zoo's social networking sites. The Humbolt penguin received more than 20 percent of the votes, thus making it the animal the couple will sponsor.